The FA have announced that diving ('deceiving a match official') leading to winning a penalty or causing a red card for an opponent will result in a two game ban from next season: http://www.thefa.com/home/news/2017/may/18/fa-to-punish-simulation-retrospectively-180517 About time they started to do something about this.
I see Big Sam Allardyce has come out to say the 'diving ban' is "ridiculous". I wonder if that's got anything to do with the fact that his player, Wilfried Zaha, has been booked, what, three times this season for diving?
Great idea as long as it is decided correctly. Anyone going down before the contact or sticking a leg out to make contact has to be banned. I hate it when ex-pros say it can’t be a dive because there was contact.
I think the panel should include: Jurgen Klinsmann Didier Drogba Ashley Young Neymar Arjen Robben They'll soon stamp it out.